Marbling Instructions Paper

As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper.

Marbling instructions paper.

Leave these pages for 20 30 min. Remove the paper as soon as it s flat starting at the corner. Lay the sheet out to dry. Fill a marbling tray with the alum solu tion and submerge each piece of paper one at a time.

A type of gum seaweed gives the water a degree of viscosity. Dissolve 4 tablespoons 60 grams of alum in one quart 95 l of warm water. The technique involves floating paints on the surface of a gel like medium known as the marbling size and then transferring this floating design onto paper or fabric. Skimming and paint prep 2.

Add your watercolor paper down on the water rough end we cut our paper to a size that fit our pan fully submerging to capture all the paint onto the paper. In the alum solution and then line dry. Carefully lay sheet of paper on the water but don t submerge it. Pulling a printed sheet 4.

Experiment with different types of paper and see which is best for you. Cleaning the tray 5. Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry. The best easiest and cheapest diy marbled paper is done with shaving cream marbling.

Marbling begins first with the dissolving seaweed powder in water seaweed is a white material derived from an ocean plant. Use this traditional technique to make your own patterned fabric one of a kind wrapping paper greeting cards fine art and more. Swirl the colours with your stir stick blow on the surface with a straw or use a comb to create marble patterns. A tray with the approximate dimensions of the paper to be marbled is filled with this liquid to depth of about six centimeters.

Remove and pat dry with a paper towel. Do not touch the paper until it is dry typically within 2 hours depending on humidity levels decide whether to keep or discard your solution it can be used several times. This is one of our all time favorite art activities. Hang paper to dry marbleized side up.

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